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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vonnegut attribute his friend's tears who cried from an author's writing to?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Joy.
(d) Relief.

2. What does Vonnegut compare his action of stripping out the bad pieces to?
(a) Golf.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Filleting a fish.
(d) A sport.

3. Which of the following are NOT mentioned as possible addictions?
(a) Gambling.
(b) Sex.
(c) Writing.
(d) Alcohol.

4. What did people not know existed until many years later?
(a) Another galaxy.
(b) Ice ages.
(c) Meteorites.
(d) Another hemisphere.

5. Who sees Trout discard his literary work?
(a) A police officer.
(b) Another writer.
(c) A guard at the Academy.
(d) A nurse at the hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Trout want people to perceive him?

2. Who is Kilgore Trout?

3. What is located next to the American Academy of Arts and Letters?

4. What does Vonnegut reflect on at the beginning of Chapter 17?

5. Where was the first atomic bomb dropped?

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